miniWol is a small and reliable Wake-on-LAN tool, designed for home and professional use, with low resources requirements, and great ease of use, for novice and expert.
miniWol is a great and reliable little Wake-on-LAN tool.
Designed for both home and professional use, MiniWol combines ease of use with some really nice features, and low resource requirements, making it a nice addition to your IT toolkit.
Adding devices to miniWOL is a breeze with its intuitive flow, and assisting features.
miniWOL allows you to simply select from a list of known IP address, and additionally tries to autodetect the MAC address, so you don't have to look for it, or even type it - even if you entered the IP address manually.
Whether you're an IT professional managing multiple systems, or a home user looking to simplify your tech setup, MiniWol is your go-to solution for waking up your network devices remotely.
Some key features include
- great for novice users, yet offering advanced features for experienced users
- Optionally start miniWOL when your Mac starts
- Automatically wake up selected devices when miniWOL starts
- Wake up devices when your Mac wakes up from its own nap
- Automatically quit and close miniWOL when its done doing its job
- Run a script or start an application after a device woke up successfully
- Select your target devices from a list of known IP addresses
- Try to find the MAC address that goes with the IP address you entered
- use custom broadcast masks if you need to for each individual device
- Set a custom WOL port if a specific device needs this
- Tries to detect if your target device indeed did wake up
- Small helpers like PING, testing WOL, and testing scripts
- Supports Dark Mode
- Universal binary (Intel and Apple Silicon)
miniWOL has been around since 2016, and we've enjoyed some very nice reviews over the years. If you're in the market for a Wake-on-LNA utility, then we're confident miniWOL is something you may like - just give it a try. We offer best effort support on our website, and we're open to feature requests.
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Superb Package of Useful Utility Apps for MacOS Power Users
TinkerTots
On his website, this developer provides a superb set of useful utility apps for MacOS power users. So, I was overjoyed when he added this one (miniWOL) to the Apple (Mac) App eStore. I use this “miniWOL” (mini-Wake-on-LAN) utility daily. It’s extremely easy to configure. It hides all the “ugliness” of dealing with UNIX/MacOS idiosyncrasies (quirks). It provides a clean, GUI (graphical user interface) that lets you get the Wake-on-LAN setup quickly and easily. I highly recommend this software utility.You’ll find other extremely useful utilities for MacOS users at this developer’s website. Another one that I use multiple times a day is his “ConnectMeNow” (setting us network shares utility). Again, I highly recommend it. Hopefully, this developer will experience the benefits of using the Apple App Store now that he’s got miniWOL there. I hope we can look forward to his putting all/some of his other utility products there as well.
Developer Response
Thank you TinkerTots!This is probably the nicest review I have ever seen.😊 - note that there will be an update in the next few days addressing a few bugs and some minor cosmetic improvements.As this is my first experience with the App Store it sure came with some challenges. Your review is definitely helping keeping me motivated. Thank you again! You made my day!
It doesn’t work
alxgdmx
It doesn’t work, do not have a okay to configure which network adapter you want to use, requires IP address and the MAC should work only with MAC address, the auto discover doesn’t work either.
Minor bug fix with MAC address detection
Version 3.2.1
The developer, Johannes Luijten, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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